[mythtv-users] Virtualisation in the home network -- ready for mainstream?

[Raymond Wagner]

David Brodbeck wrote:
> Another reason to do it is as an added measure of privilege separation. 
> If one virtual machine is compromised it probably won't lead to compromise
> of the other VMs, barring security problems with the VM hypervisor.  In an
> ideal world you wouldn't run, say, a web server and an NIS master on the
> same machine, but running them in separate VMs provides almost the same
> level of security without the extra box.

As mentioned, you can use a vserver which is designed exactly for this 
purpose.  If one container is compromised, it won't lead to a compromise 
of the other VMs, barring security problems with the kernel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer